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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much did the fire eater earn?
(a) 10 shillings a night.
(b) 1 pound a night.
(c) 4-6 shillings per night.
(d) 1 shilling a night.

2. To what may the discrepancy between the police estimate and Bishop Ryan's estimate be attributed?
(a) The police would downplay it in order to not have to arrest so many women.
(b) Bishop Ryan would exaggerate in order to rile up the good Christian people.
(c) A difference in how each defines prostitution.
(d) Hemyng has no idea as to why there is such a discrepancy.

3. What does the author say happens to a young girl lured away from home?
(a) She thought she was going to be a nanny.
(b) She was wrongfully held by pimps until her father pays a hostage fee.
(c) She was kidnapped into prostitution.
(d) She thought she was going to get married.

4. Why did the clown stay a clown if he did not like doing so?
(a) It was better pay.
(b) His father wanted him to do it.
(c) He couldn't get other work.
(d) He was involuntarily apprenticed to a clown and he could not break the contract.

5. What did some people who was physically and mentally able to work do?
(a) Give to those less fortunate.
(b) No work.
(c) Take care of others but not themselves.
(d) Answer to a higher calling.

6. Where does the puppeteer perform his Punch and Judy show?
(a) Mostly along the boardwalk that runs along the Thames River.
(b) On the particular street corner that he rents and pays taxes to the city.
(c) In an auditorium or theater.
(d) In the streets, at private parties, and at birthday parties for the children of noblemen.

7. How many visits per day did each missionary make on average?
(a) 12.
(b) 3.
(c) 8.
(d) 2.

8. Where was the convicted thief who was interviewed born?
(a) Belgium.
(b) Sussex.
(c) Paris.
(d) A gypsy camp.

9. What is another thing the London City Mission did?
(a) Watched that people were not taxed unfairly.
(b) Helped pregnant, unwed women.
(c) Told the police when there was crime in an area.
(d) Encouraged residents to attend church.

10. To what does Hemyng say the theater, fireworks, low lodging houses, drinking, smoking, the music hall and blasphemy contribute?
(a) Police ineptness.
(b) Criminal behavior.
(c) General lassitude.
(d) An increase in prostitution.

11. How did Mayhew term the young men between 12 and 20 years old who had no job and loitered in the streets?
(a) Budding criminals.
(b) Rats.
(c) Lazy varmits.
(d) Unlucky stiffs.

12. Why did the puppeteer leave his former job to become a puppeteer?
(a) There was a great deal more money to be made.
(b) He wanted more freedom.
(c) He love puppets.
(d) He injured himself and was fired.

13. What puppeteer did Mayhew interview?
(a) His own cousin.
(b) A former gentleman's footman.
(c) A friend who went to school with him when he was a boy.
(d) His own brother.

14. What was one thing the mission about which Hemyng writes intended to do?
(a) Reduce abandoned children.
(b) Increase the saving of prostitutes to the Lord.
(c) Increase marriage.
(d) Reduce blasphemy.

15. What did the fire eater have to do once to win five shillings on a bet?
(a) Jump into the Thames River while on fire.
(b) Walk on a tightrope forty feet off the ground while eating fire.
(c) Kill 20 rats in a cage with his teeth.
(d) Kill a cobra with his teeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one thing the London City Mission did?

2. What group did the magician join to get away from home?

3. What did the clown hide from his neighbors?

4. What seemed to be part of the motivation for a street person to perform?

5. What did Mayhew call the fact that many would rather starve than accept charity?

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